Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Just 4 Percent of Israelis Think Obama is Pro-Israel

Only 4 percent of Jewish Israelis believe President Barack Obama's policies are pro-Israel, and 50 percent oppose a temporary freeze of Jewish settlements in the West Bank, a poll out on Friday showed.

The survey showed 51 percent considered Obama's administration more pro-Palestinian than pro-Israeli, and the percentage of Jewish Israelis who consider Obama as pro-Israel was down to four percent.

By comparison, 88 percent of those interviewed for the June survey thought former U.S. President George W. Bush was pro-Israel.

[Yet >4 in 5 American Jews voted for Obama.]

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